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The Huron Expositor, 1891-10-16, Page 4THE HURON EXPOSITOR OCTOBER 16, 1891 NSW ADVERTISEMENTS allt Meagan between the parenthesis after &oh une denotes the pais of the -paper on whioh he advertisernemt wRI be found. Overcoate--jeckson Bros. (5) Entertainment -Wm. Moore. (6) Condition Powders -I. V. Feet. (5) Auction Sale-jst.cMartin. (5) Site for Town H II -Wm. Ellett. (6) Thoroughbred k For Sale -D. Milne. (6) Auction Sale -Wm Craig- (5) Teacher Wanted -Thee. Townsend. (5) Teacher Wante4T-Hichard Ross. (5) Re Leads Them R. Counter. (8) Teacher Wanted -Ju. %Viol% (5) Teacher Wanted -Samuel Irvine. (5) Teacher Wanted -r -Alex McGregor. (5) Dog Lost -John Shepherd. S5) ProPer_t_y For Sale or to Rent -R. Common. (5) Wood wanted -W. H, Cede & Co. (8) A Good Chance -John Sproat. (5) Splendid Farm F$1,,r Sale -Jour. McGeoch. (5) Undertaking SupPlies-J. S. Porter. (8) Groceries, &c.-Mchitosh's (8) Boota and Shoes -j. R. Jamieson. (8) Notice -D. Weismiller. (8) Farm For Sale -W. Richardson. (5) Celery -w. myrrfea. (8) House For Sale or to Rent -A. Strong. (5) Auction Sale -Chas Hamilton. (5) Ordered Clothing -I --D. Weismiller. (5) lkiete and Shoes -D. Weismiller, (5) Fruit Jars -A. Young. (8) Money Lost -A. Young. (8) Strayed Helfers-lohn Carroll. (5) Valuable Farms Y r Sale -W,n. Sinclair' (8) won' t xpoiter. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, Oct. 16, 1891. Not Even Ten. ' It is said that Sir john Thompson has determined to- institute proceedings at law ageinstthe persona w ho,duri a g the re- cent investigations at Ottawa were found to have been robbing the public treas- ury. This step is a commendable one, and it ia to be hoped that the detected rascals will recelive their test deserts. But what of the government which has allowed and winked st these robberies, and whichbas been maintained in power largely by the bribery funds placed at ita disposal- by helm very contractors said othera who were permitted -nay, even encouraged' to plunge their arms elbow -deep into the public. cheat ? Is not the receiver as bad as the thief ? And who is goin to begin proceedings against the goy rnment which has been so remise in its odes as a guardian of the public late ests, as to allow theee *teenage and ras lefties, the bringing to light of which h a disgraced Canada in the eyea of the c vilized world ? The bar of pri. lic opinion is the only tribunal before bleb, under our polit- ical systeenthey can be arraigned,and we wish the signs they are that th the most corr `Criminally ne wall meet wit so richly deser _hopelesa to look dependent eta great mass of t in -the House, ta kers in the mestere. That with, Jenne, ho fact that three Messrse MeCart refugee' to wend tor Langevin, a perty lash had t of two or three them iato line. evils of our p ere more promising than administretion, if not pt, at least the most leaded of the age, the punishment it es. It was Probably for anything like an in - d on the part of the e government majority any of whom were par- rrupt methods of their ere were compunctions ever, is shown by the Conservative members, y, O'Brien and Davin, ne the guilt of Sir Hee- d it is Held that the whietle about the ears ore in order to bring Bat it is one of the rty aystem that men elected to ParliaMent believe themselves to be bound to ' support their party, whether it is ri ht or wrong ; indeed, according to the ate Premier, the men who will stick clo est to his party lead- er when that lea er is farthest in the wrong, ie the o Iy kind of follower worth having. Consider what a service a few inde- pendent members of the Conservative lei party in the Pious of Commons had it in their pawer to r rider to the cause of national purity an uprightness during the recent crisis. By joining hands with the Liberals! in condemning the corruption and malversenion which - scarcely any one attempts to deny, they would not eta y have cleared 'their own skirts, but aye rad. the whole country such an o ject lesson that fu- ture governments ight well take war- ning therehy, and learn that for gov- ernmente, as wen a3 for individuals, honesty is the best °Hey. But the op- portunity has been lost ; there were not even ten good men ound in Sodom. It only remains to be seen whether the country will c ncione what Perna- • ment has refused o coademn. The re- cent scandals wer much worse, and on a huger ecale, than the Pacific Railway transactions, for which an aroused country disowned d punished Sir John Macdonald and hie government in 1873. But time has pa sed since then ; the public has grown amilier with corrup- tion and apparentl tolerant of it. The party press he p ty still ; eaving the Hamilton Spectate hardly a Tatar paper has lifted its voice in proteat against the whitewashing f the guilty minis- ters. They fear to hazard a drying -up of the stream of utak printing and advertising which h s flowed so lavishly in their direetion frcrn Ottawa ; and ac- cordingly we have the spectacle of a subsidized press a prolonging the reig of Corruption and bribery. The next genera' whether the denier opinion haa been car tent as to permit of tion of the terrible been shown to blies if it has, the source i stream will remain i 11 tively engaged in electiona will show lization . of public ied to such an ex - a fennel condone- evfla which have the ,body politic ; poisoned and the We know it is sor etintes stated in extenuation, of those who voted to sus- tain the Government in vehite-washing Sir Heater Langevin, Mr Cochrane and others, that if they d eated the present Government and alio ed the Liberals to come into power, tha theta would not be any improvement, that one party is as bad as the other. his, we think, is assuming entirely too uch. It is tan. tamount to saying th t there are none honestin this country, as the members of Parliament are simp,y repreeentatives of the people, and tha honed Govern. meat Is an impessibilit in Canada. We do not believe, however, thet the coun- try has yet come to this pass, 'although we believe it is drifting in tnie direction. Let the wrong -doers be punished.. If by so doing the party is upset, let it go. If the opposing party comes into power, all right. Give them a trial each as their predecessors have bad, and if they are proved to be equelly corrupt, turn them out too, and let us pone verel in thili turning -out process until we get pure and honest men. A pure and honest Government will do more for the country than strict adherence to party, no matter if, in trying for it, both the existing parties are shattered to atoms. A Politician Ho Mr. James F. Lister, w the WestRiding of Lembt minion Parliament, was h people of the county, by popular demonstration a Tuesday last. The demon gotten up by the people generally, and it is said thousand persons were pres of these were from the ru The proceedings comritenc ster procession, the first ments of which were compo ed Yeomanry from the Ridi and West La.mbton respire Lister is the gentleman w ored. . o represents n in the Do- nored by the an iinmense Sarnia on tratilon was f the county at over six nt, a d most al districts. d by a nion- wo detach- ed of mount- ngs of East vely. Mr. o di such good service in the public account com- mittee by unearthing the P intin Bar - eau and other scandals. I an address presented to hi ter delivered a powerful a heneive address, dealing wit tions which came before P the last Seseion. In the c remarks he made the folio lingstatement, if any state considered startling after t ments already brought to lig rate, judging from his rema lie have not yet heard the great scandals, and that bad already been exposed is, t worse to come. He said :, " I charge that memher plant sell to applioante for p their influence with the Go and remember when I make I do not confine my sta.tem case of Mr. Cochrane -I s day that I have proof implica four more members of the Ho mons as being involved in th game. (Cheers.) I tell you not one tithe of the /Ascent been going on in this countr made public. I tell you it duty of the Liberal party n to continue these inv (Cheers.) If my informatio accurate, I say that disci° startling, more daraaging to t power, will be made then th ever heard of or than you ev could be made." reap nee to , M . Lie- d ccimpre- thel ques- rlie ent at urse ing ent e d t. f his start - an be velop- t'any ks the pub- ast a wh f the at his ere i still of ..tarlia- blic 'favors ernment- his charge nt y h ing se o o the re to• t least Com- a ne arious tod y that t. at has h s been will be the xt session ati anions. is at all ure more e party in • n y u have ✓ d eamed Apples. A contemporary remarks t at pples, from all appearances, will rul low this fall and winter. The orch rd in a good many sections are making a big yield, and the crop, as a whet , %ill be a good one, contrary to the opi ion enter- tained by some earlier in t e eason. Advices from Europe indica e good yield in Britain, also in Russi a d else- where, and thus' far prices ave been so low in England that no ahi ments have yet been made thither f om Mon• treal, a somewhat unusual st te arof affairs at this season of the y ar. Some experienced fruit -handlers a e o the opinion that the continued he ted spell of the last three or four weeks ill ater- ially affect the keeping quail ies f the fruit, and at the moment ther is a very 1 general disinclination to cont act with orchard men. Of the Wester On ario yield, the London Free Pr ss aye : "The crop is large in same a ction of this district this year, and a n mbs of farmers have as high as 200 r 300 bar- rels each of marketable fruit t di pose of. In other sections there i a poor crop, and a short distance ma sep rate orchards full of fruit from th se here bearing is almost a failure." Opi ions differ as to the cause of this irreg lar- ity in yield. But, whatever t e c• uee, it is true that upon the whole here is in the west of this province a ful average crop of winter apples and a a rge crop of fall varieties. Prices in th west are low. Seventy-five cents to o e dollar per barrel are the ruling pric s in the orchards for first-class picked ruit. 111111•11111111111INIMMIII THE STATEMENT comes fro Ot awa that Hon. Mr. Chapleau is a ain res - sing his claims for the poeitioa of lin- ister of Railways and Publi W rks, rendered vacant by the reti eme t of Hon. Mr. Langevin. The tate ent has also been frequently made an has not been denied, that on the r cons rue - tion of the Cabinet, after Sir ohn ac- donald's death, Mr. Chapiea received from Mr. Abbott and Sir Jo n Thomp- son a written promise that on the close of the Session, when the sec d 'neon- struction of the Cabinet. w uld take place, he would be given t e coveted position. That time has now come, and to make matters more favoralde for the carrying out of the promise, ir Hector Langevin, the then occupa t cf the office, is out of the way. Thu it is that Mr. Chapleau evidently con ludes his time has come. There is, ho ever, an- other heavy set off against Mr. Chap- leau which did not exist when the writ- ten promise referred ta was made. Since then, the damaging revelations ant- cerning his management of the Printing Bureau, which is connected with Mr. Chapleau'a department, have been made. In the face of these it is no wonder Mr. Abbott hesitates to ful- fil his promise. The Depa tment Public Works, to which Mr. , Chapleau aspires, is by far the largest money spending Department of the G-overn-- ment, and it is the patronage which it thus affords that Mr. Chaple u desires to have the disposal of. The pendings of this Department amount to about nine millions of dollars per ye r. Mr. Chapleau's record, unfortun tely for himself, is not a very good one. Whin be was at the ead of affairit in Fiebee, be plunged the Province into de t and difficulties by his lavish and oorr pt ex - 1 penditures of he public mone , and those who hav read the evidenc taken before the Public Accounts' Com ittee during the recent Session of Parl extent concerning the corrupt and extra agent manner in wheel' the Printing ureau has been conducted under Mr. Chap- lean's management, will not bay much difficulty in deciding that he, is ot, by any means, title best and safest ind of men to place a,it the head of an i port - ant departmeet like that of ublia Works, where skill, industry . and hon- esty are the leading characteristi s re- quired- in the occupant. Tine f t is, Mr. Chapleau is; jedging froth hie ante - cedents, the verydast man that a ould be placed at the head of slich a D part - meat, and if Mr. Abbott gives in o hie importuning@ he will find that h will not strengthen his already weak posi- tion in the Country.. If he wa ts to rehabilitate hie Goverament in 'bile confidence, ono of the very first at pa in that direction is to let it be know' that he intends to keep Mr. Chapleau i the I very loweist seat in the Synagogue,a d to get rid of him entirely as soon as pos- Bible. News of the Week. GIRLs' Wen ES. -Servant girls in ali- fornia, average $25 a month. EARLY WINTER. -Snow fell o a depth of aevtn inchea in northern Ter- mont on Sunda.y, THE HEATHEN Cinti-88,--About ne- third of the human race, 400,000, 0 of people, speak the Chinese language. El &leer CRANBERRY CROP. -The c an - berry crop in New Jersey, which is 'list being harvested, will be the lartest gathered for years. The yield is sti• mated at 250,000 bushels. MISSING LETTERS. -In the 6,000 000 letters that reached the United S tes dead letter office last year there was money amounting to $28,642, and cheques and notes of the value of $1,- 471,871. THE RAINMAKING FRAUD. -F ank Melbourne, the rainmaker, has si ned a contract to water a section of Ka sas during next summer, at ten cents per acre. SUCCESsFUL . OARSMAN. -Alex. Ic- Lean, the New Westminster oars an, appears to have done pretty well b the revival in rowing consequent on the visit of O'Connor and Hanle.n to the Pacific coast. His fourth mate , a paddling race with a halfbreed n med Coots, for $100 a side, was another vic- tory for MeLean. ' GONE OVER TO MOHAMMED. -Rev W. H. Quillian, of the English chum in Liverpool, has embraced Mohamm dan- ism. . Where is a Moslem institu e he Liverpool. A SUBSTITITTE.-It has been prop eed, on account of the scarcity of black wal- nut, to subititute for it the black gum which growers° plentifully throug out the Southere States. It can be st ined so that an expert can hardly detec the difference between the woods. WONDERFUL INCREASE. -Fifty mg- lish sparrowh were taken to Austra itt in 1860. •They have multiplied until they now number countless millions. At first they lived entirely on insects ; the later birds prefer fruit, vegetables and grain, and have ruined hundred of farmers and gardners. THEY LOVE THE DECANTER TOO ELL. -When Emperor William's bill to re- press drunkenness watt introduce at the meeting of the Bundesrath on ed- nesday, it met with such violent o po-_ sition from the representatives of the various States that it had to be .dth- drawn. HEAVY CARGO. -On Sunday' last the Canadian Pacific Railway stean er, 1` Empress of China," sailed from V n- couver for Japan and China with 87 saloon passengers and 235 Chinese. he carried 1,450 tons of cargo, compose of flour, cotton, and other merchandi e, and 58 bags of mail. WIDESPREAD DESTITUTION. -It i3 said 32,000,000 R,uesian peasants re destitute. To add to 'their distress t $ e prices of food are rapidly rising, and ' some places they have been doubled. JOINT STOCK ELEVATOR. -The Far ers' Alliance of Minnesota are forming a joint steak company to build a 1,000,000 bushel elevator at West Superior, W B- AN HISTORIC CHAIR. -A chair made I cousin, for next season's wheat crop. from two beams of the City road chapel, London, the corner -stone of which ' a laid by John Wesley, and the origi al Bpworth Bible, are being uied at t e Ecumenical Council now aitting n Washington. DEATH WINS. -Jockey Moore, w o rode several times at the beginning f the fell meeting at Latonia, died at th t track on -Monday front pueumonia pr duced by a cold caught from the use Df the sweat box in trying to reduce his weight. He was 20 years old. ROBBERIES. -Three masked men en- tered the car stables of the Metropoliten cable railway in Kanaas City, Kane 's, on Friday night, and made the cashi r give up $400, and on Wednesday thr e highwaymen entered the Nationel Ba k of Enterprise, in Walla Walla coun $ Oregon, and made the cashier surrend r $3,500 in cash. ELEVATOR ACCIDENT.-ReV. Sa,mu I Benedict, aged 60, for many years rect r of St. Paul Protestant Episcopal chur h of Cincinnati, lost his life Tuesd y evening by an elevator accident, whi e visiting a paeishioner. He id)ed deem° - ed from the third story to the grou floor and was stepping out, when, by unaecountable freak, the elevator ah$t upward, crushing him in a frightf 1 manner. SUING FOR DAMAGES. -Mrs. Anna • II Miller, wife of John Miller, wh fatally stabbed his son at Rochester, N Y., aome time since, while under th influence of liquor, and who is 'now co fined in the insane asylum, has brough suit for $20,000 damages against Henry Schraft, the proprietor of the sa/oo where Miller secured his liquor. TWENTY• SEVEN GALLONS A HEAD. It takes a good deal of liquid to moisten British clay. In 1890 Great Britain drank over '29,000,000 gallons of British spirits, 9,000,000 gallons of foreign spirits, 15,000,000 gellons of Wine, and 968,000,000 gallons of beer -and ale, averaging in all about 27 gallons per head for the entire population, TELLING ADDRESS BY CHARLIE Ross' MOTEIER.-At the annual convention of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church, Erie, Pennsylvania, after the election, Mrs. Christian K. Rose, of Germantown, Pa.,' the mother of the famous Charley Ross, deeply grieved over her lost boy, de- ceased husband and a second son, moved the convention to tears and sobs by her feeling address. THE LAST RITES. -The funeral of Charles Stewart Parnell took place in Dublin lad Sunday, and was attended by thousande. The body was brought from Brighton by the Parnellite mem- bers of Parliament, and taken to the city hall where the coffin was- viewed for several hours by a reverent end sor- rowing crowd. It was then conveyed to the cemetery, where the final service was not concluded till past seven o'clock in the evening. There was no rioting, and no disorder beyond what was in- evitable in moving such a vast procession of untrained men. WHYTE THE' EMBEZZLER. - Wm. Whyte who embezeled so many thou- sands Of dollars from'his employers, the Messrs. Dunsmuir, the coal °scrim and railway proprietors of Victoria, British Columbia, has not been brought back to answer for his evil deed. 'His thefts from those who trusted hate at the Cape, at Les Angeles, and at Victoria, foot up to $50,000 to $60,000. He writes from the States that he is doing well-thaving Victoria oapital to sten with ! Footaene.-The Canadian -American football team hoe defeated South Wales by 9 goals to 0. The record of the team so far shows : Matches Played 17, won 4, drawn 1, lost 12 DRAUOTITS. -- Mr. Wyllie's playing tour in England has been a great suc- cess. In Bristol he Won 61 games out of 76, the remaining 15 resulting in draws. In Nottingham he won 86 and 11 were drawn, and at Loweetoft he won 18, 2 being drawn. PERILS OF OCEAN TRAVEL. - The Augusta Victoria, which arrived at New York on Monday reports that from Oc- tober 4 to 9 she experienced heavy west-, ern gales with teasnendously high seas. The steamer sustainednao damage, but during the gales she rolled and pitched heavily, and several saloon paesengers who'attempted to move about the vessel were thrown down and a number had arms or legs broken. Eight or more were severely cut about the head. The Umbria, just in, reports that mile took heavy weather October. 3, and that it continued until October' 9. A few of the passengers were injured. STANLEY'S NARROW ESCAPE. -A de- ,spatch from Rome on Monday last says : The Brindisi Express, on board of which train were Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stanley and Mrs. Tennent, hen bcea completely wrecked at Carovigno, nineteen miles from Brindisi. The Stanley party were on their way to Australia, where the explorer is to lecture. They, with all the other passengers, were rescued without injury, though they had a nar- row escape from death. A FEMALE ATHLETE'S PERILOUS FALL. -Mme. Zazelle who does the r, leap for life " act in iorepaughn shcitv, while performing at Las Vegas, NeW Mexico, Monday night,fell from a -suspended wire about 50 feet to the ground, the wire breaking. No bones were broken, but she was 'badly shaken up and will not be -able to resume her part in the per- formance for ten days or two weeks. One of the property men was badly in• jured about the head and face by a fall- ing ladder in hie attempt to break the fall of Mme. Zazelle. RAILWAY WRECK. -A wreck occurred to a freight train on ehe Delaware and Hudson Railroad the other day, near Binghampton, New York. Engineer James Patton was killed aud a brake- man and fireman severely injured. Fifty- five cars were mixed up in the wreck. The damage will amount to over $150,000. From North Dakota. LANODON, North Dakota, / September esti], Hien I/EAR ExPOSITOR,-As I have no doubt many of your readers will be anx- ious to hear how the crops are out here in North Dakota I thought I would try and enlighten them, to the best of my ability, by writing a short letter on the subject. I would much rather I had a better story to tell about it, but, as honesty is the best policy in every- thing, I will endeavor to try and give you as true and impartial an account of the crops in this vicinity as I possibly can. We have had rather a wet and cool season, which is quite. a change to what we have been used to during the last few years. They have been as a general rule very dry and the result of the wet weather has been a very rank growth of straw. I never saw heavier or better looking fields of grain any- where, and we had every prospect of a most bountiful harvest up to about the 21st of August, when we had a slight frost, but which -did not do any material damage. We had another slight frost on the 24th of August and again on the 28th 'we had a much harder one and I think it was the one that did ue the most darnege. We had it quite cold then for abdat two weeks and the grain ripened very slowly. We had light frost§ at intervals during this time,all of which helped to damage the grain. At first people did not think the damage as great as it really was, but after the grain was cut for a few days an 1 dried out, it was then the damage was seen. Our place caught the frost the worst of any place in this part of the country,I think. We had in just 100 acres of wheat and out of that there was only about 20 acres worth cutting. We cut about 45 acres, but there are 25 acres of that that will not pay for the twine we bound it with. But you must not think that they all suffered so 'bad- ly arwe did, for there is plenty of good grain all around us. I was at . a neigh- bor's threshing last week 'and what wheat he threshed yielded about 33A bushels to the acre and there is scarcely a frozen kernel in it. He had in the neighborhood of 125 acres of wheat and he expects about 30 bushels to the acre all round. Of ceurse this piece is an exeeptionally good one alp nearly all his place is high and rolling. I think I am safe in saying that nearly one half of the wheat in the settlement will be good enough for No. 3, which at thea present time hi worth about 67 cents per bushel. One quarter of it I should judge, is not good for much but feed and the rest between the two. Oats 'and barley are both a very good crop and as, is very fortunate, there was a large acreage of bpth sown this_ year. Barley is yielding about 40 bush- els to the acre and oats from 40 to 50 bushels. Oats are light in some few places, but as a general rule are a splen- did 'rep, and barley is all good as it was nearly all cut before the frost and most- ly all atacked. I think the reason that our grain was frozen so badly was on account of the land heft plotved very deeply last fall;-- making it very loose, which with so much wet weather during the summet made it grow so rank and strong that a good deal of it !ay down and did not ripen as soon as it would, had it stood up. We hadsome terrible thunder storms just about the time the grain was filling and this caused a great deal of the heavy grain to lay down. One of them in par- ticular, which came about the 12th of August, was the worst I ever witnessed any where. It lasted nearly five hours and during that time the wind blew a regular hurricane, the rain fell in torrents while the thunder and lightning was something terrific. There were a num- ber of buildings blown down and a great deel of grain blown down, especially summerfallows. We had 22 acres of summerfallow and it was as fiat in the morning as if it had been rolled. A few people thought it eves a cyclone and took to their cellars for a while. Bad as the frost has been it did not seem to have any serious effect on har- vest 'wages as they were higher than any !previous year. The fact of t matter is that it was impossible to g men and many of the farniers have thraeh out of the shock not being ab to get men to stack their grain. I kno of some ferment, who offered $3.00 a d for e man and could not get Mae. T genetal wage during the harvest w $2.50 per day and board. Threshi crews are payiug $2.90 per day f pitchers for the semen and from $2.50 $3.50 for feeders. There are a fe threshing outfits that cannot get m and have to lay up for want of the It has not been a very good time f shock threehing,there being considerab wet weather during the last two week The last two days have been wet, b it looks' like clearing up again. Sho threshing is getting to be the rule he with a gres.t many of the farmers no as it saves a great deal of hard wor When they are near to town they ge erally draw the grain to the elevato and have no more bother with it. Th is a grand year for the Iriehmen her as we have the beat crop of potato we have had for a number of years, an as there is plenty of frozen grain the will be plenty of hogs fed during th fall and winter, and as a consequeuc pork will be selling at a low figure, a -that the Irishman and all the rest of u will have cheap pork and potatoes. A roots aed garden atuff are both good an plentiful. Weare to have our first annual fair i Langdon, on the 14th and 15th of Oct benand it promises to be a grand eucces Our worthy President, Mr. .Donald Mc Lauchlin, formerly of Brussels, Ontario and his able staff of directors, are doin everything in their power to make i what it should be, and I have no doub but that they will have the eatiefactio of seeing, as they well deserve to see, fair that will be a credit to any country The prize list is out and is a good one there being about $600 to be given out i prizes, besides quire a number of specia prizes to be given on different articles. We hear quite a number pf differen accounts of the crops in Manitoba. Th Winnipeg Free Press seems to think tha the damage is alight in moat places, bu as far as we can learn the damage ha been as heavy, if not heavier, than i Dakota. In tlse threshing crew that i going around here there are four of th men from Manitoba, about 40 miles wee of Witinipeg,and they say that the grain was frozen very badly there, and the wages were low, $1.50 being the mos they could get a day. There are a num ber of farmers around here too, who have their men from the other side There were a number of men stopped a Gretne from coming across here to work they having hired in Winnipeg to wdrk on some farm over here, and by law a num cannot contract, while on Qan- adieu soil, to dome over here and work. The Winnipeg Free Prase stil keeps hacking away at the Dakotas. There is hardly a paper we get, but there is something in it about hard times here and about the hundreds_ that are leaving and making preparations for leaving this fall. I think if there is any leaving to be done it will be on the other side this time, as in these districts where times were the hardest last year they are blessed with a magnificent crop this year. • In Devil's Lake district they have the best crop they have had for years, and all or nearly all No. 1 hard wheat. I believe that we have as hard times here as there are in -any pert of North Dakota, and I do not hear of any one going to leave for Manitoba, but on the nontrary, those who went away during last winter and spring to differ- ent countries are mostly all coming back again. Mr. Cempbell, tbe immigration agent for Manitoba, said in a letter in the Winnipeg Free Press, that of all the delegates from the Dakotas to Manitoba there was not one but was satisfied that Manitoba was the better country. Now, I am certain that Mr. Campbell is wrong there, for, as I said in a previous letter saw three of these delegates my- self, in Winnipeg, and they 'each and all toldane that they were better satisfied with Dakota, and, more, there were, I think, about seventeen men out of those who were persuaded to leave here and go to Manitoba came back and made affidavit that hianitoba -was not what the agents had led theth to believe, and that they were contented tq stop here. Now this is the truth as can be proven if necessary. a do, not understand how, ifeManitobs, is tie much better than Da- kota, why they don't give their leborers higher wages and not have them coming over here to work. If they would send their agents to work amongst them and keep them at home it would do them_ more good than coming here to try and take our settlere away from here. It seems tp me to be rather a small and uncreditable way at best of settling up a country. Hoping I have not trespas- sed too long in your valuable space, I am, respectfully yours, PETER STEWART, Langdon, P. 0., North Dakota. New York Letter. (Regular Correepondence.) New YORK, °atelier seth, men A inoet remarkable and clever case 'of swindling has just come to light in this city, the operator being a woman who has followed the ameggling business for years. The woman, who is known by the` name of Mrs. Yancy, was employed by a diamond importing firm of Chicago and, after successfully eluding the cus- toms officers for a long time, she finally decamped with $30,000 worth of the firms diamonds. Many times she has been examined by female searchers and every thread of clothipg she had on care- fully sctutinizede yet she managed to get goods into New York safely. A noticeable yet unsuspecting feature of her traeels was that she was always ac- companied by a small colored boy, con- nected to whom by a short chain_ was a pelican, With tbis combination it is al- leged that about a million dollars' worth of diamonds have been imported without duty-generalli concealed in the beak of the pelican. The woman's employers are now in a sad predicament; because in trying to save the $30,000 they leave themselves liable to fines for defrauding Uncle Sam, which may amount to a great deal tnore. A PU2ELE FOR EXPE,RTs. Dr. Alexander Riza, of this city, owns a very remarkable watch, of which no- body seems to khow the origin or his- tory, except that a Third avenue jewel- ler got it from a man who 13rought it from Paris. The watch is perfectly transparent, both front and back, itis covers being made of thick glass. The hands revolve around a glass dial, and seem to have' no connection with the works. Several watchmakers have care- fully examined the mysterious time- • piece, but cannot explain the way it works. One can look through the watch and yet be none the wiser about it. It keeps perfect time, and the doctor thinks it is the only watch of its kind in this country. Dr. Riza would like to have some person explain the riddle, He ifs es much in the dark about his odd timepiece as anybody else. I ,HEEREWS IN MOURNING. The past week has been a very solemn one to the thousands of Jewo in this city, ae it was the beginning of the Hebrew New Year. In their manner of celebniting tho New Year, the Hebrews differ from modt other nations very much, for instead of ejoicipg they spend the time in fasting and prayer. The first day of the No Year, which was last Saturday wee , is said to cernmemorate the anniversary of the creation of the world. It is .alled Roeh ileshanneht In the followi g week comes the Day of Atonement, c lled Yom Kippur. On this day no fo d of any kind, not even a driuk of water, passes the lips of an or- thodox Hebrew for 24 hones. Many Jews, who giVe no attentien to religious observances at any other ,ime, go to the synagogue on this Day of Atonement when theY tir the most devout of wor- shippers. e Feast of Tabernacles follows about en days after tlie day of Atonement. t luta a week, and is a time of great ejoicing. POD:ONED GRAPES. The discovery last week of tons of poisoned grap rhas created a panic in the fruit trad , as the public are now• afraid to ea grape3 whether poison. ed or not. TI e consequence is that the price has gen down to about opt or two cents a pound. The condemned grapes were p isonei by being sprayed while growing, with a solution of sul- phate of copp r, for the purpose of de- stroying the dhylloxera. The growers claim that thel solution is not poisonous, as it has been used in France for fifteen years, and wa recommended in this oountry by th Departmeat of Agricul- ture. The eh mists of the Board of Health, howe er, are of the opinion that the solution, a applied to some of the grapes, is inju ious to health land datt• gerous to life. A large quantity hes therefore been seized and destroyed by the authorities though no ease of sick- ness from eatin the grapes has yet been reported. It i hardly poseible that the, Holution is real y dangerous when pro- perly applied, but perhaps it has . been used by same g owers in a careless man- ner. TIIE DIS RDERED STREETS, The streets in this city are continu- ally being torn up for one purpose or an- other, hut never has there been such a wholesale and continued plowing and digging up of qie pavements as during the past summ r. This is caused by ohauging the., Broadway and Third Avenue street ar lines from horse to cable roads. street that is not. now I torn up feels lo esome, but there are I very few loneso ne streets. For menthe Broadway hal een nothing but a series of deep ditches and great stone heaps, over and bctwe n which the eetning multitude are continually t reading their way. To lay the cable oad on Broadway, and not close the et eet, is like trying to lee, a new floor, put down a carpet, lath. plaster, whitewa h and paint a room al at the same tim , while living in the ro m, not removiug any of the furniture, and having company. This constant invasion of the city thoroughfares is a great imposition upon a patient and lo g -suffering public. A IINTQ E LETTER -BOX. , A most ingen ous and serviceab!e let- ter -box has rece tly been invented by a New York rnan and will perhaps be adopted by thi Government for use throughout the country. The box is made of oast frier, octagonal in shape, five and a half feet high ; and is icapped with an orna,mefital crown. In one of the faces is a clock and calendaring ap- paratus which stamps every letter mail- ed with the name of the city, the num- ber of the box, clay of the month, year, and, time of day', The box also has a pannel showing the hour of daily collec- tion, and a special one showiug when the next collection will be merit.- The invention is the result of ideas fu uished by Mr. A. B. DeFrece, of thi city, after whom it is named. The mo el box is to be set up in.the Capital for se dur- ing the coming session of Congr ss. If adopted by the Government, over 100,- 000 will have td be manufactured. A MONSTER FROM JAPAN. The Bristol steamer -Euphrates, which has jUst arrived from China and Japan with 2,500 tons of teas, has, as part of its cargo, a great) curiosity in the shape of a giant Japanese crab. He is not alive just now, as the sailors wieely de- cided he would look better stuffed and wired to a big oaken panel. The crab is a regular Jumbo of his kind, and is supposed to have been about eighty years old. Hie forward legs are eiach 61 inches long, and he measures 14 inches across the back. The pinchers are each 6 inches ; the firet joint, 22 inche ; the second, or elbow, 8 inehes, and th third joint 25 inches long. His " each" from claw to claw was, when ally , just 10 feet and 11 inchee. He has te legs, the ahortest of which are 25 inche long. Mr. Crab's pernsanent residenc will most likely be thr London Zoo. - - 1EDWIN ARLINGTON. Hurir Notes. Mr. John Ceozier has rented the fifty acre farm of Mr. 'George Baerowa, on the 13th conceseion of McKillop, -A horse belongiug to Mr. Thomas Hill, of Hallett ,gravel road, dropped dead on one of the streets of Clinton on Saturday night lest. --The August !mike of cheese at the Silver Corners' cheese factory has been sold, to Mr. Thos.; Ballantyne. The price paid was 10 center per pound. -Mr. E. W. Lewis has been engaged to teach in School Section No. 8, Gode- rich township, for next year, in place of Mr. W. McLeodi who goes to the Tor- onto University. -Mrs. Mounteaetle relict of the late S. H. Mountcastle, o'f Clinton, passed away on Tuesitly morning, 6th inst. Deceased was one of the early pio eers of Huron. - Rev. H. Mc uarrie, of Win ham, has gone on a we I earned holiday tour to Nova Scotia, ,ccompanied by- Mrs. McQuarrie, where they win vane ene scenes of their yauth, - Mr. Frank Patterson of Wingham, has a small apple tree wh'ich had blos- soms on it last Week. This tree bore fruit the first year it was planted and has been bearinglevery year since. - Mr. Frank Claruthera, of Turnbury, left at the Wingaam Advance office the other day a bunch of fall wheat which had been planted in August and which had already obtained the great height of 29 inches. -Mr. Wm. Si clair,of 13russels,ha.d peaele of the Cra ford variety grown in hie own garden t at would do credit to a southern clim It measored seven and one quart r inches in circumfer- ence. -On Sunday ard of the 9th co to his long home ed the advanced brothers and on well up in years -Mr. S. Dol th inst., Michael How- acession of Grey,passed Deceased had reach - age of 80 years. Two sister, all of whom are urvive him. age, of the 5th conces- sion of McKillop, had the miefortune to lose a horse the other day. He was on his way home from Seaforth, driving his team, when dhe of the horses stum- bled, breaking his leg by the fall, and had to be shot. -The Wingbam Advance - says: Perhaps we have living in our midst, or in this vicinity,some of the most mis- erable, low, cont4mptible sneak thieves that were ever allowed to crawl on the face of the 'earth. On Tuesday night there was a kettle of soap, furnace and alastolan from behind the Queen's hotel. This is one of the most bare-feced robberies that has happened in Winghion for some time, but it is to be hoped that the guilty perties will be speedieldy brought to justice. Our eagle-ey county constable, Mr. Geo. Russel, is on their trail and no doubt will run the rascals down. -Ala. C. Dallas, of Winghtureplantaetdo- laat spring one white elephant pot and when he dug them the other daypleiret had just 31 pounds of potatoes. Peo talk about the fertility of Manitobs sooilil, but apparently we have just as rich s here. Mrs. J. W. Brown, of Grey, aged -Oa Thureday morning of last we8eryk3 years and 7 months, died after a ve brief illness, at her home on concessiohnt 16. Her husband died seven or eighe years ago, they were old residents in t township. tVese Territory formerly with M. H. -Mr. T. H. Miller, of Regina, Nortldh McIndoo, of Wingham, was visiting o friends last week. He was sent out beyr the Regina Boatd of Trade to look aft their interests in the exhibit of produtcoe of this section of country at the Toron and London fairs. ham and grand daughter Bertie,return -Mr. and Mrs. Sextus Kent,of Winekgd.- from Manitoba on Saturday of hist wee While in the West, Mr. Kept visited tas Dumber of former Huronites and repor d that they are all looking happy anat aNroeratphp‘avrecantt.ly prospering in the gre -An. estimable young lady, abourt. sixteen years of age, daughter of M John McIntosh, of concession 8, Mae; lialop, died last week, a victim to th dread d isease consumption. It appeasrst she contracted a cold some time la spring, which settled on her Jungs, re- sulting in her death. -George Neibergall has disposed oef his farm near Leeburn, formerly th property of N. Morrish ; the purchaserrs are X, Baechler jr., and his brothe Ma.ximilliate, for the sum of $7,500. We understand the new owners will move their portable sawmill, from near the tPhoertp,roapfteerrtya; time to cut the timber on -As Mr. J. Cook and wife, of Leh- bnrn were returning from Clinton last week', and when coming down a hill, the harness broke making the shafts strike the horse on ;he head,frightening it. As soon as Mr. Cook got the horse stopped Mrs. Cook went to get out with the baby in her arms, but missed her foeting and fell, spraining her ankle severely. -Dr. Tamlyn, of Wingham,met with a little misfortune Wednesday afternoon of last week, He was driving in a buggy steadily along the road,1 leading a colt, when the colt jumped in between the Wheels of the buggy, breaking all the spcires in one wheel. The doctor put a rail under the buggy in place of the wheel and drove home; -What might have proved a aerious fire was averted on Sunday morning of laet week. Joseph Gass and family, who live in the station at Henfryn, were awakened by smoke and on going to the Nvaiting room found a hole burnt through the fioor about a foot square. Had it not been diseovered when it was the building would have been con- sumed. -Poet Master Spence, of Ethele has a pear tree in his garden on which were grown a pear of the Flemish Beauty variety which weighed one pound, two ounces and measured over 13 inches. On the same tree were two other pears weighing one pound -and fifteen ounces respectively. lt will be no easy matter to beat this in the fruit line. There were six pears on the tree referred Vein this - istoentn,T.Mr. J. P. Tisdall, of Clinton, on here died at the residence of his Saturday morning, 3rd inst., F. J. M. Tisdale Deceased was a respected resi- dent of Strathroy. He enjoyed the best of health generally, had no consti- tutional ailment, but found it difficult and painful to take even liquid nourish- ment, and while he sat reading on Sat- urday his breathing became restricted, and before any relief could be afforded Shhin-ietrUh, formerly of Hullett, writea from enddeireddate of the 1st inst., Mr. W. Marlette, Michigan, as follows : Crops in Marlette township 'dere v-ery good this year, with the exe,eptiols pf hay, which was very light. At pkeeent the farmers are cutting a fine cro 'of hay. ugust was a very wet m nth, and amaged barley and oats con iderably. good acreage of fall whea is being wed and is looking well. We lately had very pleasant visit from the venerable ohn Rudd, of Goderich township, who as at Marlette to see his brother Wil - am, who was sick but is noca reeover- A A so a ing. -The Clinton News Record gives the following account of an afternoon's shooting by a young lady of Clinton One day last week Miss- Mcflardy, organist of St. Paul's church, and Lieu- tenants Combe and Rance tried their nerve and accuracy of aim at the Clin- ton shooting range. At 200 yards Mies, McHardy Made 17 out -of a poesible 25, two of them bull's eyes, tieing Lieuten- ant Rance and doing better than Lieu- tenant Combe. In shooting 01 the tie the lady and Rance again tied. The lady used Captain Todds' rifle. At 400 yards the lady also made armee good Fshaororntienrga: Institute, held on Thursday of -The meeting of the west Huron last week, at Dungannon, was attended by over 300 farmers, their wives and Profeesor Shaw of the Guelph Agricultural College, addreesed the meeting, and his remarks were' received with great enthusiasm. Hon. John Dry -- den, who was to have attended, was suddenly takenill, and had to return home. At the evening session tbe large hall wancrowded. Professor Shaw and other speakers addressed the meeting. A quartette from Goderich, under the charge of Alex. Saunders, rendered the 'musical part of the perfarmance. The Weet Huron Farmers' Institute is in a flourishing condition and numbers. join- ed after the session. Perth Items: -Mrs. Alex. Smart, Fullerton, died October 2, aged 88 years. -Mrs. Robt. Darling, Brooksdale, died September 25, aged 88 years. -Mrs. Wm. W. Lyone. St. Marys, died September 26, aged 74 years. -Mrs. Jane Patterson, Wallace, died September 28, aged 81 years. -A grand foot ball tournament was held in the agricultural grounde at At- wood On Saturday, 10th inst. -Wm. Trew, mail carrier, of Newton, lost a valuable horse the other day. It took sick on the road and died a few hours after reaching home. -Mt. Wm. Dunn, of Atwood, has disposed of his saw and planing mill property to Wm. P. Forrest, 8th con- cession, Elma. -On Tuesday night of last week in the British hotel, St. Marys, Michael Murray, _Downie, claims to have re- ceived a stab in the breast and laid in- formation againet Wm. Forbes, the razor -paste man, for stabbing " with in- tent to do grievous and bodily harm." From the evicienae the squabble took place about a o'clock 'in the evening. Forbes had been making a disturbance in the dining-rooni ; the landlord (J. Clarkson) was putting him out ; Murray interfered, and received the wound with a knife. Trhe knife passed through 1 Murray's vest and shirts, and struck over the cartilage of the fifth rib on the left side making a wound half an inch deep and three-eighths in vertical diam- eter. Forbes was sent up for trial. -One day last week James McKenzie threshed on the farm of Moses Harvey, treasurer of Emma township, 2,000 bath - els of grain. -The youbgeet daughter of Mr. W. LaKells, of Listowel, had the misfortune to fall the other day and dislocate the hip joint. -Mr. Stephen Bodkin, one of Russel - dale's old and highly resnected resi- dents, met with a pleasant surprise the other day in the shape of a visit from a sister who lives near Toledo, Ohio, and whom he had not seen for 34 yeare. -The following are the returns for the month of September at the customs port of Stratford : Dutiable goods, a:73,. 139 ; free, $5,499. Duty collected - Stratford, $10,765.56 ; St. Marys, $2,- 078.60 ; Listowel, $200.24 ; Wiarton, $123.56. Total collected, $13,167,96. -Mr. Thomas McClay, of Woodetock, has sold his large brick house ia Islitchell to Mr. George Davidson, taking in part payment Mr. Davidson's residence. He afterwards dispoeed of the Davidson property to Mr. John Edwards for the sum of $900. -Much sympathy is expreszed for Mr. Daiid Hughey, of tlitchell, who lost hie wife, at the age of 23 years snd 8 months, on Monday, 5th inst. De- ceased had eaten some grapes, the seeds of which refused to digest, and inflamma- tion of the bowels followed, resulting in the lady's death. She leaves one child, only four months old. -A number of residents of Romeo Ward, Stratford, have presented John Idington, Q.C., with a handsome gold headed cane as a mark of their epprecia- ticoa of his services in helping them to rid the locality of a disorderly house. Mr. Idington was completely taken by surprise, as he had expected no return for his services. -The Elma Cheese and Butter Com- pany secured first prize at the Western fair on colored and white cheese and the bankers' prize of $80. The maker, James A. Gray, is. to be congratulated on his success. The factory has 92 patrons, and the joint contribution of milk per day is 20,000 lbs. About 150 cheese are tnade weekly during the season and the August make has been sold for 10e, a pound. -The anniversary setvices in connec- tion with the Atwood Presbyterian church were held on Sunday, October 4th. The inclement weather pre- vented a large turnout. Rev. J. L. Murray, of Kincardine, preached both morning and evening. On Sunday after- noon a chiidren's meeting was held and on Monday evening Mr. Murray deliv- ered his popular lecture, entitled " What I saw in Italy," to a large audience. -Mrs. James Brisbin, who lives with her husband in. Listowel, is in a pre- carious condition through swallowing a plum stone. While eating a plum, the stone by some means got into her wind- pipe and thence to the lunge, from whence her medical attendants have found it impossible to dislodge it. Its presence has caused the lady, who is ' upwards of 70 years of age, a great amount of suffering and incessant fits of coughing. -A remarkably sudden death oc- curredenn the 6th concession of Logan on Wednesday of last week. Mrs. Margaret Eizler, widow of the late Ernest Eizler, had just eaten ber dinner, wiien she complained of not feeling well, and her daughter advised her to lay down for a while. Going to eee, her a short time after, the girl found the poor woman dead, and the alarm was given, but it was not found neceesary to hold an inquest. She leaves a large grown up family, who are fairly well provided for. -Mr. John Gibson, a fanner, living about three miles from St. Marys, was driving into church on Sunday morning, and when descending the steep hill west of the Junction station the tongue of his waggon fell down, causing his horees to become uamanageable and run away. His son and two daughters, who accom- panied him, as well -as he himself, were thrown out of the rig, receiving serious, if not fatal, injuries. They were con- veyed to a neighboring house, where Mr. Gibson and his daugnters still he in a critical condition, -While two or three strangers were in St. Marys the other day taking part in a wedding ceremony they tied their horse in front of the Windsor hotel, but upon returning found not their turnout where it had been left. Telegraph and telephone linen were set to work but to no purpose. • In about a couple of hours the rig was driven up by some fellow wit°, had just borrowed it fot a while. The strangers were pleased to get their outfit and proceeded homeward. We have heard of the same thing being done with horses during church service. Per- sons caught at such trtcks should have a lesson from the justice mill. -Thos. 13ailantyne, a young married man in the employ of a ohn E. Ratz, Gadshill, died unexpectedly about 1 o'clock Tuesday morning of last week. On the Thursday previous while work- ing in a field Mr. Ballantyne received a sunstroke and fell to the ground, but bang healthy and powerfully built he soon revived and continued work. Next day, however, he was unable to leave the house and gradually grew worse, losing consciousness on Sunday and sinking rapidly from that time until the hour of his death. The deceaSed was a steady, industrious young man and leaves a wife and one young child to mourn his demise. Parnell's Funeral. The funeral of Mr. Parnell, the once great- Irish leader, took plane from his residence in London, Eng- land, on Saturday morning. The casket was taken from. the house to the railway station, amid_ a terrific downpour of rain. At the station the remains _were placed the funeral car, and with the members of the Parnell Parliamentary party as watchers started for Willesden Junction, near Dublin. The re- mains did not pass through London as at first proposed, A8 a mark of respect to the dead, the blinds of many houses alow, the route fol- lowed by the funeraci procession on its way to the- station were drawn down, and on every side were 8108 of sincere sympathy. The casket was covered with magnificent wreaths of flowers, onc of which, in the center of all, was from his wife. A 6INGULAR ficENE. The steamer arriaed in Kingstown about 9 o'clock in the morning. Despite the fierce downpour of rain and a raw wind that made it al- most impossible to stand on tilt. pier, thousands of people were wait- iijg and reverently bared. their heads - as the coffin was brought aaliona A singular scene was then wit- tiessed. irogt the m the er°wir tile box-, Le' -for the pat louts of tl few 111°11.1e It Oiled 33 oith eve!Y the CO3.1111% leader' The ia ihouiderjs. 4 _St:ver, sr VI e ::::.11 Ce f frielidg 1111411 ceased. COMII the thr°118. ' 33/lining 111. pouring ral the oft' cilarapinoagrf tyre:5: So nutilern1 1. 1 lytol 1 Ix uGtyt ihl 1040::::filepAnrtj 1 it ate:, ossd,netet. od.t. ileseeillnIi,:srleoyloyla;orttrlisf1111:ifil It were compl e,ioaasurtIttlyinbrteiii it,i est:oratehd.on ct.ernYgrteigi°autsha- great that 217: aulad.: 'bw.t ahiesi 2.." -,1r ttihaerkgsatunesi, remains of _committed .edetatitte3dtht:satte theAyNNsinimp NOTIeli 7' ., ncearoackanerdym,shustec. ately. GEOR to belound at They art now 1 Wcel taaerwe J. B. 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